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• New prime minister will face a range of urgent priorities from day one

  04-07-2024 11:00
  
  An imminent Nato summit, bursting prisons and another strike by junior doctors for starters mean whoever takes the keys to No 10 will have little to no time to celebrateThe campaign is over, but it’s only now that the really hard work begins. Every new prime minister faces a bulging in-tray of issues, decisions and potential mishaps, but this one will be arguably more laden than most. Continue reading...
  
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• Fostering Families: a relationship-based alternative to separating them

  04-07-2024 10:51
  
  By Zoe Ash and Toni Mayo
  Many statutory social workers find themselves in an uncomfortable dilemma when carrying out their duties.
  Contrary to the values that lead most into their profession, we can find ourselves in the profoundly uncomfortable position of causing unequivocal psychological harm when separating children from their parents.
  For some children, foster care, residential care or care by someone within their extended network is considered necessary for their immediate or longer-term s
  
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• Wayne Reid: how George Floyd’s murder inspired social work’s anti-racism ‘visionary’

  04-07-2024 10:00
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Our interview with Wayne Reid is part of a series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Previous interviewees include Eileen Munro, Herbert Laming, and June Thoburn.
  In 2021, Wayne Reid became the first anti-racism visionary at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW). In this role, he
  
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• ‘A lot of stereotypes to break’: Children’s Inquiry musical explores life in care in Britain

  04-07-2024 06:01
  Children’s experiences form basis of play that weaves 150 years of care system history into narrativeWhen theatre-makers Matt Woodhead and Helen Monks gathered with a small group of children in a theatre in Essex five years ago, the plan was simple: discuss the care system.Woodhead and Monks are co-directors of Lung Theatre, a company that has made a name for itself by tackling weighty subjects, such as the Chilcot inquiry, housing evictions and, most recently, the spate of self-inflicted
  
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